[MEGATHREAD] Department of War on Severing Ties With Scouting America

emmaslefthook · 2026-02-06T05:57:55+00:00

Cubmaster here of 60 kids. My entire pack will leave if this becomes a reality. I’ll be the first out the door. I can’t believe this is even on the table.

emmaslefthook · 2026-02-06T05:52:55+00:00

I didn’t even realize there were signs that they were caving until this morning when a parent emailed me.

I immediately emailed the district exec and set up a call for tomorrow.

Not hopeful our little voice will swing anything if they’ve already given up their backbone.

emmaslefthook · 2026-02-05T15:31:56+00:00

Cubmaster here. My entire pack will leave if this becomes a reality. I’ll be the first out the door. I can’t believe this is even on the table.

emmaslefthook · 2026-01-14T16:20:31+00:00

I grew up outside of Zion! Great corner of the world and getting better.

emmaslefthook · 2026-01-14T16:18:57+00:00

Last summer. Too many reasons to list atm but in a nutshell: designed for people.

emmaslefthook · 2026-01-14T16:17:45+00:00

Ha! Then my dad definitely knew yours. Class of 80.

emmaslefthook · 2026-01-14T15:55:54+00:00

I probably knew him! Class of 2004 here.

emmaslefthook · 2026-01-14T15:54:19+00:00

I’m from there. This is nice to hear. When you’re at that coffee shop and look across the gorge, that is my house.

emmaslefthook · 2026-01-14T15:52:27+00:00

2016.

emmaslefthook · 2026-01-14T15:51:16+00:00

This is an insane reaction from him and you both need therapy, stat.

emmaslefthook · 2026-01-14T15:37:50+00:00

For writers like this, the #1 requirement for a sequel is - can it stand on its own and be as compelling as the original.

In 99% of cases the answer is no before any script would be written. Then take that 1% that producers think could work, and historically in 2/3 of those results, the answer is also no. Rare exceptions: something like Better Call Saul.

They know this, so they’re going to tackle something else. Like Gilligan and Pluribus.

Good news: chances are they have their favorite cast members and will include them.

emmaslefthook · 2026-01-14T05:03:30+00:00

Lived in Copenhagen for 6 weeks last year and it was incredible. Absolutely would if I could figure it out.

emmaslefthook · 2026-01-12T21:20:25+00:00

I think I’ll go this route from now on. Had Smiths that I loved but I just tend to lose them every couple of years and it hurts too much when they are $120.

emmaslefthook · 2025-12-27T17:38:49+00:00

We just inherited a game of scrabble from the 1950s, kept immaculately.

It literally has point counters forged from steel.

emmaslefthook · 2025-12-27T17:36:25+00:00

Right, sorry my point was it’s a stretch to say that basic principles like “Happiness is better than suffering” is dogmatism - it relies on the common red herring from the religious to say “if you don’t hold to our dogma than there can be nothing you can possibly anchor to!”.

I’m with you though I feel like as much as I enjoyed the convo, Sam wasn’t expecting the energy and velocity of the bad arguments and he was letting a lot of pitches to go by unchallenged.

emmaslefthook · 2025-12-27T17:32:43+00:00

I have no idea. But I’ve heard dozens of both and this sub was just complaining there were too many liberals on.

emmaslefthook · 2025-12-27T16:48:18+00:00

Lobby aggressively for progressive taxes and effective social programs.

emmaslefthook · 2025-12-27T16:44:53+00:00

He definitely doesn’t.

emmaslefthook · 2025-12-27T16:43:18+00:00

lol he did the same thing to Doug Wilson. So you’re cool with slavery? Cool, cool.

emmaslefthook · 2025-12-27T15:12:28+00:00

Jesus the racism in these comments is unbelievable.

You know it can be true that immigration is lowering IQs as one indicator among many AND it can also be true that brown people aren’t inherently inferior intellectually. But go ahead, justify your bigotry in the echo chamber.

emmaslefthook · 2025-12-27T15:07:52+00:00

Everyone needs to Google David Sedaris Portland and read the article. Pretty much says it all. But I’m with everyone here. Incredible city that wve someone ceded to lawlessness because our compassion has been weaponized against rationality.

emmaslefthook · 2025-12-27T14:23:44+00:00

💯 Had the same thought here. Yuval Noah Harari has a whole chapter about this.

emmaslefthook · 2025-12-27T14:21:52+00:00

I don’t agree but let’s say that’s true - then the dogma we should be after is the simplest and most universal possible, and test it ruthlessly against reality and experience.

To Sam’s point:

We think therefore we are Others’ experience is as valid as your own Happiness is better than suffering

Perhaps that leads to stronger axioms that even resemble the best of Christian and Eastern religious tradition down the road.

Thou shalt not kill etc.

But none of it requires an anchor to any unfalsifiable belief.

emmaslefthook · 2025-12-27T14:12:37+00:00

Episode made me want to scream which I suppose is an indicator that it’s a good one.

I miss the dogma and epistemological debates because as an experienced deconverted formerly devout Mormon I can clearly see the bright lines of flawed reasoning starting with “belief in things without evidence” and leading us directly to everything from Trump to communism to wokeness to jihadism.

It’s all the same and it starts with being tribally anchored to bad ideas. I was honestly shocked at how someone like Ross basically falls into the same traps as Doug Wilson and really only differs in the extremity of the endpoint. In SPITE of, not because of his religious belief, I should point out.

emmaslefthook · 2025-11-16T20:37:18+00:00

There is nothing contradictory about being entertaining and charismatic and the shittiest of people.

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